Grant Partners

Funding for marketing and communications efforts to increase the counseling center’s visibility to youth workers that are facing hardships and streamline new client registration projects that can allow them to have access to mental health services.

Funding to launch the Chop and Connect program – a weekly meal and event for the elderly African immigrant community in Boston to reduce the impact of social isolation.

Funding to support and train staff to address mental and emotional health and the wellbeing of children in the WSYMCA’s programs. The funding will also support a toolkit of resources for staff.

Funding for a new “Food Security for the City of Worcester” website. The website will centralize city food resources – including information about food pantries, farmers markets, summer school meal locations, SNAP information, and more.

Funding to launch an inclusive strategic planning process that will result in  a comprehensive plan to direct the  growth and strengthen the impact of the organization.

Funding to improve security measures that includes additional surveillance equipment to ensure the organization can safely provide food and other services to the community.

Funding to broaden capacity to provide a continuum of treatment for inpatient children and youth clients by training additional clinicians across its treatment teams.

Funding for new computer equipment to expand organizational capacity and infrastructure.

Funding to increase statewide outreach, with a priority focus on Gateway cities. Mass Farmers Market will develop and distribute multi-lingual guides in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Haitian Creole as well as implement year-round education and outreach to improve use of SNAP nutrition incentives.

Funding to purchase two defibrillators for Greater Worcester Housing Connection homeless shelters.

Funding to produce Spanish and English recovery-based reentry yoga videos specifically to reach men in Lawrence. The Mandela Yoga Project will adapt and record its signature integrative health program to address the unique and specific needs of Black and Latino men who are at risk of fatal overdose upon release from incarceration.

Funding to bring air filtration units to high-risk shelters, congregate housing programs, and other shared living spaces for low-income Worcester residents in need of additional protections from COVID-19.

Funding requested to pilot a program to recruit and train more people of color to be lactation specialists in Western MA.

Funding to support the translation and interpretation of patient self-referral portal into various foreign languages with the purpose of being more inclusive of the many cultural and linguistic groups that make up their patient community. 

Funding for new equipment to improve the food pantry and make it more welcoming for guests.